Do you watch someone code live (twitch, youtube, somewhere else?)? If you do, how often do you watch?
What do you look to get out of the stream?
- Learning how to work in a language/framework?
- Learning how to use an IDE / editor / tool?
- Watch progress on a project you have an interest in?
- Entertainment?
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I watched only once, just out of plain curiosity without expecting anything beforehand. It was a live-coding session of a Django website. On the one hand, I wouldn't do it again, since it was a bit of a waste of time. I prefer watching edited and thought content, not improvised. On the other hand, watching a good developer work in real-life gave me a lot of hope. I saw how he was struggling, the mistakes he was doing that I thought would have been unacceptable for a seasoned pro (I am a dev enthusiast, I don't make websites for a living).
Basically daily. To track project progress and for entertainment.
Cool Who do you watch?
Jonathan Blow mainly, he is coding a game and his own compiler.
I think about doing live code sometimes. It should be embraced more. You become a little more daring.